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Russia moves into orbit around its binary czars
May 6, 2008
London's mayoral race, not for the faint of heart
April 29, 2008
Scrap metal thieves plunder Europe
April 24, 2008
Is today's world big enough for Le Monde?
April 17, 2008
Ireland's no-so-Teflon Taoiseach
April 4, 2008
Belgium and the problem with problem countries
March 27, 2008
'The hand of history'
March 20, 2008
When all of Russia is your stage
March 12, 2008
In Medvedev's Russia, 'you need friends'
March 5, 2008
Can bountiful Georgia escape the Russian bear?
February 29, 2008
Europe's secret: Tax evasion on an industrial scale
February 22, 2008
The bursting of Britain's housing bubble
February 15, 2008
Nicolas of France takes a bride
February 8, 2008
Life behind Italy's walls
February 1, 2008
The revenge drama that is Diana's legacy
January 24, 2008
Terrorism and the secret agent
January 8, 2008
Mussolini's legacy: The mayhem that is Italian soccer
January 7, 2008
Carving the royal turkey and other Christmas beasts
December 21, 2007
In Britain, Canoe Man trumps the Lyrical Terrorist
December 10, 2007
Riding with Rocinante: 'It's me or the crucifix'
December 4, 2007
Russia's forced march into 'managed democracy'
November 29, 2007
Britain's Gordon Brown: Channelling Paul Martin
November 22, 2007
Writers and their ghosts
November 16, 2007
In Belgium, even the Smurfs are confused
November 6, 2007
Balfour's legacy: Creating Israel from empire's needs
November 2, 2007
A lament for Mona Lisa in a throwaway world
Oct. 30, 2007
What to do with ex-PMs and all that pent-up bile?
Oct. 17, 2007
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'
Oct. 3, 2007
Watching Burmese monks march, from a safe distance
Sept. 28, 2007
An insider asks: Where did Iraq's billions go?
Sept. 18, 2007
Murder, martyrs and legacies: Putin, politics and Politkovskaya
Aug. 31, 2007
Sweating out the memories of East Berlin
Aug. 23, 2007
In the heat of an Italian summer
Aug. 3, 2007
Caesar's secretary
July 18, 2007
A Fawlty Towers moment
July 2, 2007
In the bedrooms of the state
June 23, 2007
Guernica, 70 years later
April 26, 2007
The problem with rich, angry Russians
April 21, 2007
Looting Babylon, the anniversary
April 9, 2007
Iran and the dangers of gunboat diplomacy
March 30, 2007
Odious commerce, Britain and the slave trade
March 26, 2007
Britain's Lords: 'We are here to annoy people'
March 15, 2007
Doubly subversive, the poet as spy
March 7, 2007
Genocide and the muddle that is international law
Feb. 27, 2007
A new resistance in France
Feb. 19, 2007
Tony Blair and the scandal of the weak
Feb. 7, 2007
Advice to Serbia: Swallow the biggest frog first
Jan. 29, 2007
Global cooling as Britain flees Washington's hot embrace
Jan. 18, 2007
Churchmen and the secret policeman's list
Jan. 12, 2007
The sadistic poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Dec. 19, 2006
Words stand between churches
Dec. 9, 2006
Lebanon, assassination central
Nov. 27 2006
When history is the judge
Nov. 21 2006
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During his 30 years at CBC, Don Murray has filed hundreds of reports in French and English from China, Europe, the Middle East and the Soviet Union. He is currently based in London. He wrote A Democracy of Despots, documenting the collapse and rebirth of Russia. From Berlin, he reported the Bosnia peace agreement talks and, based in London, the death of Diana and Northern Ireland peace talks. He authored Family Wars for the International Journal, paralleling Northern Ireland and Bosnia. He has covered wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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